A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. (Clarence Day)
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. (Clarence Day)
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. (Clarence Day)
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober not always, but most of the time. (Clarence Day)
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. (Clarence Day)
'If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.' (Clarence Day)
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. (Clarence Day)
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. (Clarence Day)
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. (Clarence Day)
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. (Clarence Day)
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilization grow old and die out, but in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen . . . (Clarence Day)
If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours. (Clarence Day)
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. (Clarence Day)
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. (Clarence Day)